Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life of a highly respectable country gentleman. His five daughters have long since gone forth to marry and raise families of their own. He and his wife live alone, looked after by two maids. He relishes good food and drink, smokes continually the best and largest Havana cigars, is partial between meals to well-aged whiskey served in beautiful cutglass tumblers. Visitors to "Ainola" are impressed by his measured hospitality and particularly by the genuine good nature which belies his fearsome face...
After eight days of close questioning, Father Balaban made a partial confession, said he had hoped to raise money to return to Yugoslavia...
Second, the School lacks scholarships to an appalling degree. What few are offered come from the main income. Third, there exist no funds for research in education. Recently a notable research was conducted with only partial outside help: a twelve year study of the physical, scholastic, and mental growth of 3000 children. Although the School does not want to become purely a research institute, unless more funds are provided in the near future it might well have...
...friends had been examined, a variation in the monotonous pattern of Mrs. Hahn's past finally appeared. This was a hardy sexagenarian named George Heis, for whom the only consequences of a late evening snack of beer, pancakes, spinach, arsenic and croton oil, prepared by Mrs. Hahn, was partial paralysis and indigestion. Still hale enough to be wheeled into court, George Heis quavered out the most damaging testimony at her trial - for which the prosecution had picked the case of Jacob Wagner apparently at random...
...Metaphen, Chlorazene, Butyn" Estrone, some 1,200 other drugs grouped under such categories as vitamins, burn preparations, antiseptics, local anesthetics, hormones, pollens. Drs. Abbott & Burdick died years ago. President of Abbott Laboratories now is S. DeWitt Clough, who joined the company 33 years ago as sales manager, is still partial to high-pressure sales-technique. Also partial to good employe relations, he is generally popular with Abbott's 1,639 workers. They are about half as numerous as the rats Abbott always has on hand for experiment. Last week it was perhaps a good omen for Abbott...